Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.

When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.

All of a Christian's life is one of repentance.

The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.